Jinx Walton, Director of Computing
Services and Systems Development (CSSD), discussed network security.Identity theft is an institutional concern at
many universities due to the increasing number of hacking attempts.Hackers target university servers to obtain
the information stored on them.CSSD is
devoting more resources to security in order to combat these problems.It currently installs firewalls for
departments that request them and soon will offer security audits to members of
the University community.

Several other issues were addressed:

The number of intercepted
viruses increased over the last month.The lag time between virus creation and security updates is a
concern.

The
portal soon will be upgraded.The
portals will support browsers other than Internet Explorer as well as
document sharing.